Subject: Re: VAX7000 3-phase
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/04/2002 19:00:40
Johnny Billquist wrote:


>>O.K. got it. In this regard it may be worth noting that
>>Matt Sell had sort of complained about the 2-phase nature
>>of the VAX11/78x blowers.
>>
> 
> Hmmm. Are those really 2-phase blowers? I remember very distinctly reading
> about people hooking up 11/780s to normal wall receptacles, and it worked
> just fine.


I meant single phase of course, 2 wires one phase, sorry.


> Well, I believe that just about all VAXen except 8600 (and perhaps other
> really largish VAXen) will work just fine on single phase.
> I can't really imagine anything needing 3-phase except motors, in these
> things. And the 6000-machines don't use those kind of motors anyway. I
> would suspect the 7000 are about the same thing.


That was precisely my point :-)

-Gunther



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